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addLayersControls

This block defines parameters for adding boundary layer:

    relativeSizes true;
  • relativeSizes this parameters enables usage of relative values instead of absolute:
    • true – sizes relative to the cell size next to the patch for which adding layers is defined
    • false – sizes in absolute values
relativeSizesTrue 1
relativeSizesFalse 1

Figure: relativeSizes: true – false.

  • layers
        {
            C 
            {
                nSurfaceLayers  3;
                expansionRatio  1.5;
            }
            F 
            {
                nSurfaceLayers      2;
                // Wanted thickness of the layer next to the wall.
                // If relativeSizes this is relative to undistorted size of cell
                // outside layer.;
                firstLayerThickness 0.2;
            }
            D 
            {
                nSurfaceLayers 3;
                thickness      1.0;
            }
        }
    

     

  • layers block includes list of patches for which boundary layer is being added
    • patch name or regular expression can be used
    • the block contains
      • nSurfaceLayers – number of layers to be added
      • layer parameters (described below)

     

  • Boundary layer is correctly defined by following couple of parameters:
    • firstLayerThickness, thickness
    • firstLayerThickness, expansionRatio
    • finalLayerThickness, expansionRatio
    • finalLayerThickness, thickness
    • thickness, expansionRatio
    where
    • firstLayerThickness – is the thickness of the first layer in the boundary layer (next to the wall)
    • finalLayerThickness – is the thickness of the last layer in the boundary layer
    • thickness – is the overall thickness of the whole boundary layer
    • expansionRation – expansion ration of neighbouring layers in the boundary layer
boundaryLayer

Figure: Boundary layer parameters.

  •   expansionRatio 1.2;
    
        finalLayerThickness 0.3;
    
  • Boundary layer parameters for all defined patches (any parameter defined within the layers block prefers to parameters defined here).
        minThickness 0.05;
    
  • minThickness – minimum layer thickness below which the layer is not added
        nGrow 0;
    
  • nGrow – very experimental – best results with value $ 0$
            featureAngle 150;
    
  • featureAngle – layers are collapsed at the feature edges which see angle above this value, an example of different setups is visualized in Figure crossref 2.
featureAngle110
featureAngle60

Figure: Boundary layer parameters.

  • The remaining parameters are very advanced and set to default values. Please read a basic description in the file:
            // Stop layer growth on highly warped cells
            maxFaceThicknessRatio 0.5;
    
    
        // Patch displacement
    
            // Number of smoothing iterations of surface normals
            nSmoothSurfaceNormals 10;
    
            // Smooth layer thickness over surface patches
            nSmoothThickness 10;
    
    
    
        // Medial axis analysis
    
            // Angle used to pick up medial axis points
            // Note: changed(corrected) w.r.t 17x! 90 degrees corresponds to 130
            // in 17x.
            minMedialAxisAngle 90;
    
            // Reduce layer growth where ratio thickness to medial
            // distance is large
            maxThicknessToMedialRatio 0.3;
    
            // Number of smoothing iterations of interior mesh movement direction
            nSmoothNormals 15;
    
            // Optional: limit the number of steps walking away from the surface.
            // Default is unlimited.
            // nMedialAxisIter 10;
    
            // Optional: smooth displacement after medial axis determination.
            // default is 0.
            // nSmoothDisplacement 90;
    
            // (wip)Optional: do not extrude a point if none of the surrounding points is
            // not extruded. Default is false.
            // detectExtrusionIsland true;
    
    
        // Mesh shrinking
    
            // Optional: at non-patched sides allow mesh to slip if extrusion
            // direction makes angle larger than slipFeatureAngle. Default is
            // 0.5*featureAngle.
            slipFeatureAngle 30;
    
            // Maximum number of snapping relaxation iterations. Should stop
            // before upon reaching a correct mesh.
            nRelaxIter 25;
    
            // Create buffer region for new layer terminations
            nBufferCellsNoExtrude 0;
    
            // Overall max number of layer addition iterations. The mesher will
            // exit if it reaches this number of iterations; possibly with an
            // illegal mesh.
            nLayerIter 10;
    
            // Max number of iterations after which relaxed meshQuality controls
            // get used. Up to nRelaxedIter it uses the settings in
            // meshQualityControls,
            // after nRelaxedIter it uses the values in
            // meshQualityControls::relaxed.
            nRelaxedIter 25;
    
            // Additional reporting: if there are just a few faces where there
            // are mesh errors (after adding the layers) print their face centres.
            // This helps in tracking down problematic mesh areas.
            // additionalReporting true;
    

     

  • For this particular case, one can modify following parameters to achieve better layer coverage (note that for another case it can significantly impair mesh quality):
    • maxFaceThicknessRatio 5.0;
    • maxThicknessToMedialRatio 3.0;
    • slipFeatureAngle 130;

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Example: Blade pressure and suction side contours

Turbo Blade Post allows also an easy selection of a single blade from the full complex of all blades, which might be difficult otherwise due to a strong curvature of the blades. The method works by transforming the blade patches from their original cylinder- or disk-like arrangement to a straight arrangement just like in the previous example and by isolating the chosen blade.

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